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...Polling Director John D. Della Volpe described young adults as “outliers?? when compared to the rest of the voting population because of their enthusiastic support for Obama during the election. But he said that they now mirror the rest of the population with their approval ratings...
...There is this tendency by the physicians and the hospitals to say they did the procedure properly,” she said. “We want people to understand mortality also measures what happens after the procedure.” Cardiologists examined the study, and hospital and physician outliers??like Mass. General—were then examined by oversight committees of cardiologists, Normand said. Normand said the state sponsored her research to provide patients with information about local hospitals, so they could make informed decisions about their treatments. “From a public perspective, it?...
...Tipping Point,” is actually nothing more than a pipe dream. In his new book, “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Gladwell tries to dispel the myth that men make their own destinies, instead advancing the thesis that “outliers??—the so-called “best and the brightest”—are the result of the context in which their success took place. Outliers can’t be understood as isolated prodigies because success is not an individual phenomenon; successful people...